1. The Birth...

"Virgo No, I can't leave you. I don't want to. I won't. You'll die here. I'm not going anywhere without you." A woman cries next to the bleeding body of a man.

Fearfully looking around the cold dark woods as she tears the hem of her gown and presses down the pieces on the man's bleeding abdomen.

He had cuts everywhere, blood spilling like water from a spring, and she was confused about which wound to cover.

"You have to Kiara, you must. if you leave me then I die, but if you don't, then all three of us dies. Including our unborn child." His wheezing breath, an evidence that he was exhausted, that he was barely holding on.

"No, no, no I don't want to, come with me. Just come with me we'll keep on running away. We've scaped through all this while, we always find a way to survive. Just come with me and we'll be fine." She hopelessly pressed on harder, trying to push all the blood back into his body.

"Why are you bleeding so much? Why is the blood not stopping? Why are you not healing? Why_ why_ why are your wounds not closing? They always close back up, so why?"

She couldn't even see clearly because of the tears that rolled down her face non-stop. Anguish and pain were not words enough to measure what she was feeling.

Seeing him like this, crumbled on the ground; her mighty Virgo, she thought he was invincible, but now she knows... No one is invincible.

"I'm going to die Kiara, and there is nothing we can do about it." He breathed heavily, the pitch of his voice going lower and lower with every passing second.

"No, no don't say that. How can you tell me that? You always heal back. Why is this any different? Maybe it's just taking a longer time, it will heal up eventually..."

"Kiara... listen to me. Listen to me, Kiara." He holds onto her hand that pressed on his chest, forcing her to halt her futile efforts.

"Look at me Kiara! I'm sorry but you and I both know it, even if I run with you, I still won't make it, not when he used the Krimartar blade."

Her sobs intensified... Her heart was shredding into thousands of pieces, and the horrifying fact that she knew he was right deepened her pain.

"I won't survive, but that doesn't mean I won't be with you anymore. I'll always be in here." He places a trembling hand on her chest. "One of us has to survive."

"I'm sorry Kiara, but I can't risk your safety any longer. I love you too much to let any harm come to you. And I'm wounded pretty badly to even run further. So let me use my last strength to keep you safe, to send you far away from him."

"Virgo" his name left her lips as a whisper.

She hugged him tightly, kissing his forehead, taking his bloody lips to her mouth, drowning in his kisses mixed with tears.

Savoring the delectable and yet painful taste of his tongue for the last time. Kissing the sides of his lips, his face, everything, she never imagined parting with all this, never imagined a death scene in their love story. And yet here it was, looking her right in the face.

"Search that side!!" They heard a voice.

"No more time Kiara, you have to go now" he takes off his necklace and places it around her neck.

"Here, take this necklace, whenever you're in trouble, and there are no other means to escape from, press that button, and it will open a portal for you to escape through. When the child is born, Shinok will know. He will come look for you, so don't be scared. I love you Kiara, and our child."

He twirls his hand forward, trying to open a portal, but his wounds were too severe, and it doesn't work at first. He takes a deep breath, channeling all his energy into that one wrist, and twirls it once again, and this time the portal opens.

"Go, go now Kiara" he pushes her gently.

"No Virgo, Please. No..." She wailed wearily, pleading with not only him, but the whole universe to help her.

"OVER THERE!!!" a growl sounded.

"GO, KIARA, Go!" With his last inner force, he sends her into the portal.

"VIRGO NO!!!" But she was already on the other side, and she saw their pursuers descending on him.

"I Love You..." He mouthed as the portal closes.

...

{Five months later}

Kiara sat alone in her mushed up room, eating the last bowl of noodle she had when she suddenly felt it...

Her water just broke.

She knew exactly what to do, she had been preparing for this for months. Kiara knew she could not go to the hospital for fear of what they might do to her baby.

There was no one to call either so she decided to give birth in her house.

Quickly before she lost all her strength, Kiara arranged the bedclothes she had on the floor, started boiling water, and brought out the new pair of scissors she had bought specifically for this.

Laying down on the bedclothes and tried as much as possible to keep herself calm, she started feeling the urge to push, so she did.

Starting out slowly, trying to feel the position of the baby.

When she felt the baby was positioned well she then put in more strength. She would take a deep breath and then with all her strength...

"Ahhhhhhhh!!" She screams and tries catching her breath.

Again she would push and scream, it was draining her strength she was almost about to give up, but then...

"You're strong Kiara, I'm here with you," She could see him, standing next to her, holding her hand. Could feel him kiss some more strength into her.

"You can do this. I'll hold your hand. Let's do this my love, don't give up."

"One last time, just one more push, I can do it, I'll have this baby," she said to herself.

And with that, she used her last strength and pushed with everything she had within her.

"Ahhhhhhhh!! Virgo give me strength!" She shrilled. And with that, the baby's head popped out. The next push wasn't that difficult. Soon the shoulders were out and then the rest of the body.

It was a boy.

"Virgo, I did it, I did it. It's a boy!" she heaved with joy, but then he was just a phantom of her imagination, and like every phantom, he was not real.

He was gone and now all she had to hold on to was her baby.

"Zairo. I'll call you Zairo."